... point is. What would be direct, reproducible evidence for the spontaneous appearance of a new gene with a novel function in a genome? And how can archaeology deduce "new gene events"? My point is that something inferred from archeological data is given same weight as direct experimental ...

... a little more interested in the future than the past — but I don't dismiss it either. For example, on the top of Freeman's wish list was ribosome archaeology. And Dimitar asked, Is there a milestone that we think is significant. The ribosome, both looking at the past and at the future, is a very ...

... content etc etc. The reason is simple, it is a philosophy. Mind you Mayr also describes it as a historical science. Now that puts it on a par with Archaeology, and we all know how exact a science archaeology is don’t we? If you were honest enough to acknowledge that, at best this theory is a material ...